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[uzivatel]

Fumbleumble wrote...

I'd much rather the money was spend on design rather than making the game 'hollywood'.

If I want to watch a movie I'll do so, but a game is a completely different experience.. and 'hollywood' names are utterly unecessarily in the face of all the genuinely good 'voice actors'...The Bill for the voice acting for ME2 must have been a fortune, the money could have been spent making improvements to the actual gameplay.

But think of those ads with (semi)famous actors..

I agree that I do not need any big names ... as long as the voice fits the character and the voice actor is good, I am fine.

[Octorox]

Fumbleumble wrote...

I'd much rather the money was spend on design rather than making the game 'hollywood'.

If I want to watch a movie I'll do so, but a game is a completely different experience.. and 'hollywood' names are utterly unecessarily in the face of all the genuinely good 'voice actors'...The Bill for the voice acting for ME2 must have been a fortune, the money could have been spent making improvements to the actual gameplay.

Disagree. One of the main attractions of ME is the story and characters. You can't tell me that Martin Sheen and Yvonne Strahovski aren't on a completely different level from Mark Meer....these guys are well known because they can act and they can do it well. 

[knighteffect]

Chiwetel Ejiofor - Shadow Broker


Thats all

[Sikayda]

Mary Elizibeth Mcglynn - Voice of the baddest Futuristic Cyborg Cop there is, Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in The Shell.

[Sand King]

Bruce Campbell

Stephen Colbert

Malcolm McDowell

Ron Perlman

Liam Neeson

[Zaikor]

Gilbert Gottfried as the leaders of the Reapers.

[NvVanity]

Zaikor wrote...

Gilbert Gottfried as the leaders of the Reapers.

GENIUS!


I want Morgan Freeman in there somewhere. In fact he can be a Reaper his voice is so indoctrinating.

[TheBestClass]

H. Jon Benjamin.



How awesome would it be to have a reaper sound like Coach Mcguirk from Home Movies?

[UsagiVindaloo]

NebulaY wrote...


1.) Alan Rickman - He could voice a behind-the-scenes bad or good guy. the shadow broker e.g. or another alien equivalent

I believe I speak for many women when I say that Alan Rickman's character should be a male LI for femShep. :innocent: Listening to that beautiful sexy voice deliver romantic dialog... where do I sign?

Mmmmm, Alan Rickman... 

[TheBestClass]

Also, the guy who voices Carl from Aqua Teen.

[UsagiVindaloo]

Octorox wrote...

Fumbleumble wrote...

I'd much rather the money was spend on design rather than making the game 'hollywood'.

If I want to watch a movie I'll do so, but a game is a completely different experience.. and 'hollywood' names are utterly unecessarily in the face of all the genuinely good 'voice actors'...The Bill for the voice acting for ME2 must have been a fortune, the money could have been spent making improvements to the actual gameplay.

Disagree. One of the main attractions of ME is the story and characters. You can't tell me that Martin Sheen and Yvonne Strahovski aren't on a completely different level from Mark Meer....these guys are well known because they can act and they can do it well. 

Not necessarily. I've had a lot of exposure to voice acting (have taken classes, and my work - writing dub scripts for anime - has thrown me into that area a lot) and good skill at normal acting doesn't always translate to skill at voice acting. For one thing, regular actors do not only use their voice, but their body language, expressions, etc etc... things they don't have when doing voice acting. There are plenty of otherwise excellent Hollywood actors who deliver wooden performances as voice talent. 

Not to say that's always the case... there are plenty of cases of good actors that do well in both formats (off the top of my head, I'd say Martin Sheen, Mark Hamil, Patrick Stewart, and anyone Disney gets to do Hayao Miyazaki movies). Just saying that in some cases, getting a good voice actor is a better idea than getting a good "mainstream" actor.

[RJB1978]

salarianSniper wrote...

ooooh, Dennis Hopper would be a great shadow broker!

Um...don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but Mr. Hopper has Stage 4 prostate cancer which has metastasized to his bones.  Poor dude's only got a few weeks to live.

[NebulaY]

Hugo Weaving as a Reaper: "As you can see we had our eye on you for quite some time now Mr. Shepard" ^^

[Dr. rotinaj]

Harrison Ford as the Shadow Broker or some important Alliance official

[Darth_Griffin]

KANE.....er... Joesph Kucan as some kind of badassery role, most likely the head Reaper

[Jaster Shepard]

Steve Downes as the next human spectre! In full body armor and you do a long side mission with him, and you never see his face. Yeah!

[Images]

No! No! CLANCY BROWN as your rival human spectre, who hunts you across the galaxy because...





"There can be only one!"

[Darth_Griffin]

Mark Hamill as some kind of psychotic badass with magic powers.





wait.

[TheBoss1138]

Billy Dee Williams, As a type of king of pirates or something who becomes your strongest ally

[komenusai]

Liam Neeson as an assassin or the shadow Broker



Nathan Fillion - Maybe as a Special Forces character, Or a Dwell with a sense of humor.



Johnny Depp as a Salarian. (I just want to hear him as one. It would be awesome)



Morgan Freeman as a reaper. That would be epic and funny as hell (*watches as the huge reaper comes over the horizon and is about to blast the entire Civilization. Hears a strange garble over the radio chatter andthe reaper speaks "You either get busy living or get busy dying" Than he blasts holes in the entire city) Just hilarious XD

[Octorox]

UsagiVindaloo wrote...

Octorox wrote...

Fumbleumble wrote...

I'd much rather the money was spend on design rather than making the game 'hollywood'.

If I want to watch a movie I'll do so, but a game is a completely different experience.. and 'hollywood' names are utterly unecessarily in the face of all the genuinely good 'voice actors'...The Bill for the voice acting for ME2 must have been a fortune, the money could have been spent making improvements to the actual gameplay.

Disagree. One of the main attractions of ME is the story and characters. You can't tell me that Martin Sheen and Yvonne Strahovski aren't on a completely different level from Mark Meer....these guys are well known because they can act and they can do it well. 

Not necessarily. I've had a lot of exposure to voice acting (have taken classes, and my work - writing dub scripts for anime - has thrown me into that area a lot) and good skill at normal acting doesn't always translate to skill at voice acting. For one thing, regular actors do not only use their voice, but their body language, expressions, etc etc... things they don't have when doing voice acting. There are plenty of otherwise excellent Hollywood actors who deliver wooden performances as voice talent. 

Not to say that's always the case... there are plenty of cases of good actors that do well in both formats (off the top of my head, I'd say Martin Sheen, Mark Hamil, Patrick Stewart, and anyone Disney gets to do Hayao Miyazaki movies). Just saying that in some cases, getting a good voice actor is a better idea than getting a good "mainstream" actor.

The thing is, with the more nuanced facial and body expressions possible in modern games, the voice doesn't have to carry the performance any longer. Traditionally, voice actors have to be a little "larger than life" to get a full range of emotion out of animated characters but with techniques like motion capture that's less and less the case. Now I'm not saying we should cast Jessica Alba and Tom Cruise in all our games, I'm not a big fan of the whole "celebrity" system but I do think it means that games should start drawing in some talented actors capable of delivering more subdued and realistic performances.

[Thwyvylyn]

Given that they have raided the cast of Gargoyles almost in its entirety at this point, I think Jonathan Frakes would be a good addition.

[Darth_Griffin]

Michael Ironside

Gerard Butler

Joe Flanagin

[lbo54]

Sand King wrote...

Bruce Campbell

Stephen Colbert

Malcolm McDowell

Ron Perlman

Liam Neeson

^^^^^^^STEPHEN COLBERT

[ObserverStatus]

Christopher Lee: Batarian Hegemon